Union Grief Blames Wreck on Unfit Locomotive
Chicago August 22 A union leader accuses the Michigan Central of patchy explanations to blame striking shopmen for the Gary Indiana wreck. He cites derailments nationwide tied to deteriorating equipment and criticized inspectors for not removing defective wheels. Federal probes continue as striking workers are questioned in Gary.
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Associated Proas
Chicago
Michigan Central
Gary
Ind
J. B. McGrath
Etrike
McGrath
Cor‘oners
Ed Express
Btate
AbleruGs
Crowe
Ofice
William Z. Fostar
Tradea Union
Hedvcational Mogue
Poster
Foster
Tadiel
MacGrath
Gars
Iran
Grawn
Department of Justice
Pershing Praises Army Camp Training
General Pershing praised military training camps as meeting rising public interest in preparedness. He noted the practical instruction provided to youths is productive and engaging, with the work at the camps yielding profitable results.
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CLPA
Washington, D. C
John J. Pershing
United States
Three Families Travel West for Pacific Visit
A group of three families plans a Pacific trip by car beginning a westward journey. Names mentioned include Ed and Mrs Culp with children Burdette Laura and Ruth, Dt J BE Ullman and Jy F Moines, Mr and Mrs Joseph Iman Moilne, and Mr and Mrs 8 Kurth. They intend to spend time in Saliformia and proceed westward.
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G. Culp
Burdette
Laura
Ruth
Dt J
BE. Ullman
Jy. F Moines
Joseph Iman
Moilne
Culp
Andi
Kurth
Srav
Saliformia
Farmers of Iowa Debt Payoff Signals Prosperity Rise
Des Moines Aug 22 Farmers in Iowa are cutting debts as a bumper corn crop looms Grant McPherrin head of the state War Finance Corporation and a local bank president told bankers at picnics in five counties The total farm debt has fallen from 24 million to 17 million since March 1 The War Finance Corporation has reduced loans at about 20 thousand dollars daily since Aug 1 and July saw a one million dollar repayment He urged bankers to back farmers in marketing the crop and expect 40 to 50 cents a bushel for corn Gov Kendall later joined in the radio address and picnics are scheduled in other counties under the Iowa Bankers Association
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Associated Pressy
Des Moines
Iowa
Grant McPherrin
Towa
War Finance, Corporation
Cedar, Clay
Floyd
Ringgold
Story Counties
McPherrin
War Finance Corporation
Apparaote
N. E. Kendall
Calhoun
Guthrie
Isumboldt
Mills, Polk
Warren County
Eighteen Prisoners Escape Fort Madison in Seven Months
Eighteen inmates, including two life term murderers, escaped Fort Madison in the first seven months of 1922. Two recaptured. two escaped before Jan. 1. Recovery odds remain low, with past years showing many fugitives recaptured. Early 1922 escapes included three from the wood camp Jan 27 and a July 20 trio from the old call house. Robert Walters and Fred Thrashbor were recaptured near the prison. James Rowland, not a lifer, drowned in the Mississippi River after slipping from the greenhouse.
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United Press
Des Moles
State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Lberty
Phebe
State Board of Central
Wood Camp
Call House
Robert Walters
Fred Thrashbor
Woods
James Rowland
Gro Lifer
Mississippi River
Des Moines Embezzlement Case Seeks $30,000 Attachment
Des Moines Aug 22 an order for a writ of attachment valued at 30000 was issued against the property of Russell Cockburn former accountant in the city streets department. The petition accuses Cockburn of systematically defrauding the city by payroll padding during 1920 to 1922 totaling about 50000.
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Des Moines
Russell Cockburn
Riy
Minister Killed in Automobile Collision
The Rev. Charles Lescault, pastor of the Friends church at Earlham Iowa, was killed at 10 this morning in a collision on the White Pole road six miles from Adel. He and his wife were en route to Des Moines for a church convention at Oskaloosa when their car collided with a rural mail carrier vehicle. A binding rain storm is believed to have obscured the drivers' views. Mrs Lescault and the rural mail carrier were uninjured.
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Des Moines
Charles Lescault
The
Friends Church
Earlham
White Pole
Adel
Lescault
Deg Moines
Oskaloosa
Driver faces manslaughter charge in car crash death
Cedar Rapids Aug 22 Dan Clark the auto driver responsible for an Ellis Park crash that killed Miss Edna Morgan was arraigned today on a manslaughter charge. He posted a $7 700 bail for a preliminary hearing. The car traveling 69 miles an hour on a wooden road struck a tree and overturned. Miss Morgan died others were seriously hurt.
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Cedar Rapids
Dan Clark
Ellis Park
Edna Morgan
Sle
Five women and one man sit on Stottens assault trial jury
At the African M E church Reverend Hart testifies that detective A E Stottens assaulted him near Illinois Central tracks on Barley street. Jury selection finished at 1 a m with six jurors named. Admissibility of testimony about similar assaults debated, adjourned to 2 p m for judge ruling.
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A. E Stottens
Bureau of Idealiestion
Henry T
Aftican M. E
Propa
Cane
Ethel L. 3Fullan
Anna Bell Leonard
Lane Knapp
Editar M. Sinnard
Emelie Miers
Paul Pit-ney
Hart
Barclay Street
Woman Found Dead Near Fairfield In Suspected Suicide
Fairfield Iowa Aug 22 Velma Bain 35 employed at Fairfield Glove and Mit Co was found dead with a bullet hole beside a road near Parsons College at 7 am A small caliber pistol lay beside the body While death by her own action is suspected physicians note the lack of powder marks raises a murder theory Her parents Mr and Mrs Wrish Sallin support the suicide view Lars Pain formerly divorced from Tiverette Lula Grinnell Ia is named in the report.
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Fairfield
Velma Bain
Fairfeld Glove
Mit! ‘Ten Co
Parsons College
Lars
Pain
Tiverette Lula
Grinnell
Hans
Wrish Sallin
Police Scent Effort to Murder Couple by Chloroform Fumes
Cedar Rapids Iowa Aug 22 police investigated an alleged murder attempt on Fred Fisher and his wife by introducing chloroform fumes into their bedroom. The Fisher couple, farmers in Benton County, remain in a hospital in serious condition. Numerous footprints were found near the bedroom window but no clues have been determined.
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Cedar Rapids
Fred Fisher
Benton County
Fisher
Rail Riot Ringleader Faces Federal Arraignment
Cedar Rapids reports v. King, accused ringleader of a railroad disruption ring, was moved to Sioux City for arraignment before Judge Scott. Federal officers charge him with being a ring leader who intimidated strikebreakers on the Northwestern line on July 22.
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Cedar Rapids
King
Northwestern Railroad
Sioux City
Judea Scott
Ringstead
Northwestern
Iowa News Briefs From Ottumwa to Corning
Ottumwa reports 210 couples wed in Wapello County while 88 brides are listed as born or married in district court records. In Corning Albert Pederson pleads guilty to hog theft after a jailbreak and receives five years at the state reform school. Lehigh sees Mrs Jatt Wickersham Douglas launching a campaign for Congress in the Tenth district with a veteran and soldier bonus plank.
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Ottumwa
Wapello County
Corning
Albert Pederson
State Reform School
Lehigh
Jatt Wickersham Douglaas
Suspected hold up man detained after religious tract haul
Mr Hart said the man refused, Stef fens drew a gun and ordered hands up. The pastor and witness described rough handling before police learned the package contained only religious tracts. Steffens had thought the bag held liquor.
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Hart
Steffens
Handing
Police Staton
Funny business in bombings strikes union leader asserts
International News Wire reports Washington dispatch quoting Bert M. Jewell, strike head, urging formation of vigilance committees to help authorities assign blame for wrecks and bombings. He blames rotten equipment and guards, notes trains and shops repeatedly spared serious damage.
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International News Wire
Washington, D.C
Bert M. Jewell
Jewell
Spencer
N. G
Huntington
W. Va
Dempsey to Box in Indiana Labor Day Exhibition
Jack Dempsey will appear in Michigan City Indiana on Labor Day in a sparring exhibition with partner Jack Thompson after Governor McCray granted permission. The rest of the scheduled fight card will proceed as planned.
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Jack Dempsey
Indiana
Michigan City
Ind
Floyd Fitzsimmons
Big Bow
McCray
Dempsey
Jack Thompson
Flivver Plane To Make Its First Flight Test Next Week
A 14 foot wing span midget plane, touted as the smallest hangarable flyer in America, will receive its baptismal flight next week at Dayton. Designed by Captain Aubrey Eagle and Lieutenant Melvin W. Asp, Elington Geld, Texas, the craft boasts airbrakes and simple operation. The makers claim it can reach 1,000 feet altitude from a standing start in 30 seconds.
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United Press
Dayton
America
Aubrey Eagle
Melvin W. Asp
Elington Geld
Texas
Elain
Saloon Robbery Ends With Two Bandit Deaths
St. Paul Minnesota August 22 Bush Lee a highwayman died of wounds after a saloonkeeper shot two of three thieves during a robbery. Ballis proprietor was clubbed and the bandits fled with cash. Ballis fired five shots wounding two, the third escaped by automobile.
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St. Paul
Minn
Bush Lee
Nick Ballis
Ballis
Three Burn to Death When Train Strikes Truck of Turpentine
Detroit reports three people burned to death when the northbound Toledo Detroit flyer struck a motor truck loaded with turpentine and gasoline at the Dixie highway crossing near Rockwood. The collision occurred this afternoon outside the village, about 26 miles south of Detroit, Michigan.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan Central Railroad
Dixie Highway
Rockwood
Here
Vets' Headquarters to Stay in New York
Seattle officials dispute reports from the recent national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars claiming a move of national headquarters from New York to Kansas City. Convention leaders stated the New York headquarters would remain for at least one more year and denied any knowledge of a planned move.
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Seattle
Wash
Terts Bill Now in Hands of Conferees
After an hour's discussion the tariff administration bill was sent to a conference today by the house. Speaker Gillett named five members of the ways and means committee as the house managers. Fordney Greene Jews Longworth Garner Collier.
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Washington, D. C
House
Gillett
W and Means
Fordney
Greene
Longworth
Ohio
Garner
Texas
Collier
Mississippi
Johnstown Chief Says Saloonkeepers Fooled City by Beer
Prohibition Director Davis reports no real beer sold in Johnstown over recent weeks while Mayor Cauffiel claims real beer was sold and questions federal inaction. Davis cites a flagrant constitutional defiance and a near beer presence amid ongoing enforcement.
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Johnstown
Washington, D. C
Prohibition
John T. Davis
Pennsylvania
Haynes
Caufiel
Davis
Washington
Cauffiel
Boy Gives Life to Save Dog From Train Wheels
Hood River Oregon August 22. John Young eighteen son of Owen D Young former GE president died today after leaping from a moving locomotive to save a camp dog. He was a material checker for Pacific Power and Light Co. and the dog ran in front of the train. Young tried to snatch it to safety but fell beneath the wheels.
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Hood River
Ore
John Young
Owen D. Young
General Electric Company
New York
Young
Pacific Power & Light Co
Teachers College Enrollment Rises by Nine Hundred Fifteen
Cedar Falls reports enrollment at Teachers College for 1021-22 rose by 915 compared with the prior year. The total enrollment reaches 5,392 with 709 men and 4,682 women. Extension credit work includes 3,136 participants while the study center averages stand at 14. per student, compared to last year's 62.
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Cedar Falls
Teachers College
Fires Rage as Dry Conditions Threaten Minnesota Woods
Washington dispatch reports renewed calls for dismissing Prohibition Commissioner Haynes over alleged misuse of treasury mail for political propaganda. In Minnesota forest rangers fight 15 to 20 fires daily amid extreme dryness. state forester W A Cox warns winds could spark worst fires in state history as creeks and wells run dry.
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Haynes
Minnesota
Washington, D. C
Federn Prohibition
Heyns Jon
Treasury
Mellon
John P. Hill
Mary Island
Frank
Treasury Department
Antisaloon League
Hitt
St. Paul, Minn
Forest Rangers
North Woods
W. A. Cox
Cox
Body of Elderly Man Found in Pari Lagoon
Police investigate possible robbery and murder after discovering the well dressed 65 year old man under a bridge in Lincoln Park lagoon. The victim wore a black frock coat and trousers with empty pockets and bore a single initial M on his underclothes.
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Chicago
Lincoln Park
Mrs Martin Burke Waterloo fire chief's wife dies
Mrs Martin Burke 1220 Commercial Street, wife of Waterloo Fire Department chief, died at Presbyterian Hospital at 11 a m after a long illness. An operation for gallstones on June 13 gave partial relief. complications followed two weeks ago. Born July 4, 1868 at Lamont, she was daughter of D. M. Brown. Survived by husband and three sons from previous marriage Burt Gardner Casper Tecla Ralph Gardner. siblings John Brown, Nettie Sexton, Fanny Busch. Body at Petersen Bres chapel pending services.
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Martin Burke
Commercial Street
Waterloo
Presbyterian Hospital
Burke
Lamont, Jr
D. M. Brown
Burt Gardner
Casper
Wyo
Percy Gardner
Tecla
Ralph Gardner
Tacoma
Wash
John Brown
Lamont
Nettie Sexton
Stockville
Kon
Fanny Busch
Sioux Walls
S. D
Petersen Bres.” Chapel
Convicts Still At Large After South Dakota Penitentiary Escape
Sioux Falls Aug 22 four convicts who escaped last Thursday from the South Dakota penitentiary remain at large. Posses who yesterday morning were taught to be only a few minutes behind them have not located any positive trace since they were seen passing Beaver Creek around 1 am Monday morning.
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Sioux Falls
S. Bb
South Dakota
Beaver Creek
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ALF. of
Gen. Pershing
Army Camp
Fraining
Pacific
Jewell Amv
Vets
Fletcher
Nas
Iind
Chas. Hr. Fletcher
Centaur Company
New York City
S.S.S
Boy
Dog
Pari Lagoon
B. O W. Schuneman
Inter Et Chay
Bostoy Bure Satara
Sonfort
Gillette
Ainly
Gillett Razors
Ancy
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